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B, R. & A. R. WALES. BOTTLE, TANKARD, GLASSWARE, OR THE LIKE.

Patented Dec. 28,1897.

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NITED Fries.

ROBERT ROSS WALES AND ALFRED ROSS WALES, OF \VESTOVER, CANADA.

BOTTLE, TANKARD, GLASSWARE, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,194, dated December 28, 1897.

Application filed M rch 1 1897-.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT Ross WALES, a citizen of the United States, and ALFRED Ross WALES, a citizen of Canada, both residing at Westover, in the county of WVentworth, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottles, Tankards', Glassware, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in the application of an attached base to form and act as a cushion for bottles, tumblers, and drinking vessels of like nature, the objects of our invention being, first, to provide a bottle or drinking vessel that shall be noiseless when placed upon a counter or'table of marble or polished hardwood, and, second, to afford facilities to prevent the defacement of marble-top or polished-wood tables, counters, and the like.

Figure 1 is an elevation of abottle provided with an attached base to form a cushion. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same base detached. Fig. 3 is an elevation of a glass or tumbler provided with an attached base having dovetail. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the same base detached. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a glass or tumbler provided with an attached base hav- Fig. 6 is an elevation of the same base detached. Fig. 7 is an elevation of a glass or tumbler provided with an attached base having a central raised part, and Fig. 8 is an elevation of the same base detached, all of these figures, being a modification of Figs. 1 and 2, and cement may be applied in order to firmly attach any. of the above modifications of the base to a bottle or tumbler.

Similar letters and numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A indicates a bottle, and B a drinking glass or tumbler.

0 indicates a base or cushion of rubber or other suitable material in order to provide a noiseless vessel for use in hotels, restaurants, drug-stores, or such places. This base 0 may be applied to a bottle or drinking vessel by means of cement or other approved method.

Serial No. 627,2 96. (No model.)

Any vessel provided with this base a cushion is formed and is perfectly noiseless and proves a boon to any of the above-mentioned places that use it. Marble and polished-hardwood tables, counters, and the like are not defaced by the use of vessels provided with this cushion. It will be observed that the use of this rubber base or cushion as applied to the class of ware or vessels set forth is of great utility and of especial benefit to the places previously referred to and the objects specified. This base can be cemented to the bottom of a bottle or drinking vessel in a perfectly fiat state, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, or the upper part of the base may have a raised part 2 to act as a dovetail, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, or the upper part of the base may have a raised through part 3, as in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings, or the upper part of the base may have a raised central piece 4, as in Figs. 7 and'8 of the drawings. It will be perceived that any of these modifications of the attached base may answer the purposes of an applied cushion to the bottom of bottles and drinking vessels, though we prefer the one that is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the character described consisting of a rubber base having a dovetail for insertion with a dovetail recess of a bottle or drinking vessel as herein set forth.

2. A device of the character described consisting of a rubber base as cushion attached to bottles and drinking vessels by means of a Eongue and groove and cement as herein set orth.

3. A device of the character described consisting of a rubber base with raised center to fit into a recess formed in the base of the bot-- tle or drinking vessel as herein'set forth.

ROBERT ROSS WALES. ALFRED ROSS WALES.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. HENDRY, B. E. HERALD. 

